THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM BY E. BELFORT BAX. Anti-Feminist book from 1910 (Online)

Tyrael · #1 11th-May-2007

THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM BY E. BELFORT BAX. It's from 1910. The man talks about the women's suffrage movement and such. What's surprising is that he has pretty similar complaints about feminism that many of us have about feminism now, almost 100 years later. The main difference seems to be we have better evidence these days of the feminist lies that they were telling even all the way back then (and back then would be in a time when they claim they were being horribly oppressed, but appear to have been running amok and with plenty of legal privileges):

http://members.garbersoft.net/spartacus/bax.htm

Fembotism:

Quote:

The present volume aims at furnishing a succinct ex- posure of the pretensions of the Modern Feminist Movement. It aims at presenting the case against it with an especial view to tracking down and gibbetting the in- famous falsehoods, the conventional statements, which are not merely perversions of the truth, but which are directly and categorically contrary to the truth, but which pass muster by sheer force of uncontradicted repetition. It is by this kind of bluff that the claims of Feminism are sustained.

Women refusing to accept their sexes bad behaviour:

Quote:

The powerful female sex union spoken of, in the present day, exercises such a strong pressure in the formation of public opinion among women, that it is rapidly becoming next to impossible, even in the most flagrant cases, where man is the victim, to get any woman to acknowledge that another woman has committed a wrong.

Real goals of feminism:

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Indeed, it would seem as though the main object of the bulk of the advocates of the "Woman's Movement" was to convert the female sex into the position of a dominant sexe noblesse (sex nobility).

Bias in the law in favour of women:
(Interesting to note the activities of the suffragettes)

Quote:

Though in theory women may have to obey the law as men have, yet in practice they are absolved from all the more serious consequences men have to suffer when they disobey it. The treatment recently accorded to the suffragettes for crimes such as wilful damage and arson, not to speak of their previous prison treatment when convicted for obstruction, disturbance and minor police misde-meanours, is a proof, writ large, of the mendacity of the statement that women no less than men have to obey the laws of the country, so far, that is, as any real meaning is attached to this phrase.

No protection for men from domestic violence:

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Under cover of the notion of chivalry, as understood by Modern Feminism, Political and Sentimental Feminists alike would deprive men of the most elementary rights of self-defence against women and would exonerate the latter practically from all punishment for the most dastardly crimes against men. They know they can rely upon the support of the sentimental section of public opinion with some such parrot cry of:
"What! Hit a woman!"
Why not, if she molests you?
"Treat a woman in this way!" "Shame!"

Chivalry/Equal rights contradiction:

Quote:

Modern Feminism has two distinct sides to it: (1) an articulate political and economic side embracing demands for so-called rights; and (2) a sentimental side which insists in an accentuation of the privileges and immunities which have grown up, not articulately or as the result of definite demands, but as the consequence of sentimental pleading in particular 12 cases. In this way, however, a public opinion became established, finding expression in a sex favouritism in the law and even still more in its administration, in favour of women as against men.

Chivalry, as understood by Modern Sentimental Feminism, means unlimited licence for women in their relations with men, and unlimited coercion for men in their relations with women. To men all duties and no rights, to women all rights and no duties, is the basic principle underlying Modern Feminism, Suffragism, and the bastard chivalry it is so fond of invoking. The most insistent female shrieker for equality between the sexes among Political Feminists, it is interesting to observe, will, in most cases, on occasion be found an equally insistent advocate of the claims of Sentimental Feminism, based on modern meta-morphosed notions of chivalry. It never seems to strike anyone that the muscular weakness of woman has been forged by Modern Feminists into an abominable weapon of tyranny.

And about manginas:

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So far as courage is concerned, which was perhaps the first of the chivalric virtues in the old days, it certainly requires more courage in our days to deal severely with a woman when she deserves it (as a man would be dealt with in like circumstances) than it does to back up a woman against her wicked male opponent. It is a cheap thing, for example, in the case of a man and woman quarrelling in the street, to play out the stage rôle of the bold and gallant Englishman "who won't see a woman maltreated and put upon, not he!" and this, of course, without any inquiry into the merits of the quarrel. To swim with the stream, to make a pretence of boldness and bravery, when all the time you know you have the backing of conventional public opinion and mob-force behind you, is the cheapest of mock heroics.

Tyrael · #2 11th-May-2007

You can download a PDF version of THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM BY E. BELFORT BAX here.

Dr David Banner · #3 11th-May-2007

Thanks for that Tyrael I saw this before, but lost it.
its awesome, a revealation of an article. Without the net we never would have seen it.

Major Tom · #4 11th-May-2007

Great post Tyrael.

Thanks for highlighting the parts about manginas, domestic violence and chivalry and dividing them into segments too.
I think that will make it much easier to use quotes from Belfort Bax without having to read through the whole article.

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